e-sata

rah^ · 24 Feb 2011 at 08:42

Quite a simple one really!

I have a laptop with a lowly slow 5400rpm drive (which i dont really have the money to swap to a large enough ssd for stuff)

Is e-sata fast enough to whack a few of my steam games on and use like that or am I best of just sticking with the slow ass internal drive? :

rah^!

rpstewart · 24 Feb 2011 at 08:48

eSATA is just SATA with different cables, it runs at the same speed so will be fine for anything you want to run on it.

rah^ · 24 Feb 2011 at 10:02

on another small note then! any suggestions?

.:SAmSuNG:. · 24 Feb 2011 at 10:08

Why not put the SSD inside and run a larger normal external drive. SSD just for games is a waste imo.

rah^ · 24 Feb 2011 at 10:14

its not an intention to put an ssd on the esata side of things merely something faster than the current internal drive.

Also coupled with this I cant be bothered with the faffing around with moving over my windows install / the restore partition from my current drive

I was just looking at the route of a 500gig or so drive to whack a few games on and so on

silversurfer · 24 Mar 2011 at 13:05

rpstewart said:
eSATA is just SATA with different cables, it runs at the same speed so will be fine for anything you want to run on it.

Any ideas why my esata drive just decided 'this media is read only'

It had worked fine just like a normal drive like you say but today its changed its mind

sybaris · 25 Mar 2011 at 08:50

I use e-sata to move large files from my desktop to my PC and for backing up.
E-SATA is the same as SATA, don't even bother with USB you will be there for weeks doing the same thing.

5er driver · 25 Mar 2011 at 11:23

sybaris said:
I use e-sata to move large files from my desktop to my PC and for backing up.
E-SATA is the same as SATA, don't even bother with USB you will be there for weeks doing the same thing.

+1. With e-sata, syncing computers, files, and backing up is fast.